VICTOR REPPERT SAID:
“Add to this the fact that many embryos die in the early stages of pregnancy, indeed, most conceptuses are unfit to survive and are killed in the womb, and this seems to be part of the design plan. If every fertilized egg is sacred before God, then why is God systematically killing so many of them? It seems George Tiller had nothing on the Almighty as an abortionist.”
i) In a fallen world, everyone dies sooner or later. You have human beings who die at every stage of life. Miscarriage. Infant mortality. Men and women cut down by cancer in the prime of life.
If that’s supposed to be an argument for legalizing abortion, then that’s an argument for legalizing infanticide and (adult) homicide.
But if Reppert refuses to take the argument that far, then what’s the point of his comparison?
ii) There is also an obvious difference between letting nature take its course, and preventing nature from taking its course by terminating a pregnancy.
iii) If we’re to take Reppert’s argument from analogy at all seriously, then he has no problem with George Tiller’s profession. Yet Reppert resents my accusation that he’s a front man for baby-killers. Well, which is it?
iv) At the risk of stating the obvious, the Creator and Judge of mankind has a right to do some things which you and I don’t have.